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Tagged: Books for 4th grade, Books for 4th grade boys, books for boys, Books for young boys

This topic has 6 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 11 months ago by keechivalley.

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April 28, 2017 at 1:22 am
Regan
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My son will be in 4th grade next year. I am looking for some of your favorite books that your boys find particularly appealing. He is interested in adventure, the outdoors and loves history particularly when it pertains to the various wars. He is also fascinated with battleships, tanks and military planes. He loves animals and science. He also loves mystery but nothing scary! He is reading on his grade level. I am looking for read aloud books that would appeal to him but the other kids would enjoy. I also want a few books he can read independently. This will be his first year where I will be assigning independent reading for him. He is my first born, so this is my first time assigning independent reading. I want it to be a good experience with books he finds interesting. I would appreciate any recommendations you ladies could share with me. Thank you in advance!
Regan
April 28, 2017 at 5:11 am
Tristan
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Kids are so different but here are ones my boys have enjoyed around that age:
Books by Beverly Cleary (Ralph S. Mouse series and the Henry and Ribsy series especially).
The Boxcar Children
The Hardy Boys (the old ones, not newer ones).
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series
The Mysterious Benedict Society series (these are long so a read aloud or an audio book)
Rascal
My Side of the Mountain
the Narnia series by CS Lewis
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

April 28, 2017 at 9:17 am
Paula Spicer
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Gentle Ben was a big hit.
We also listened to My Side of the Mountain and the Willougby’s (laughed a lot at this one), Old Yeller
My 10 year old is currently reading the series with Bigger, Sooner, and Betrayed and he is enjoying them.
It’s probably considered twaddle, but we enjoy Hank the Cowdog 😉
April 28, 2017 at 9:56 am
alphabetika
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I don’t have sons, and I probably sound like a broken record because I always recommend this book, but here goes: Rascal by Sterling North. It hits several of the points your son is interested in, it’s a true story, it’s wonderfully written, and it teaches. We love it so much, I’ve already read it to my 7yo daughter four times (the 2 – 4th time at her requests) and she’s asking for it again this summer. She appreciates it on a certain level, and no child is too young for good writing, but I think a boy your son’s age would understand it even a bit better. I read it to my other two girls at various ages and I never get tired of it as a read-aloud.
July 12, 2017 at 10:10 am
keechivalley
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My son loves the same type of books. He always enjoy reading about cowboys, indians and early united states history (american revolution, civil war, going west etc.)
I have started booking booklists together on my blog of books we’ve enjoyed and instead of retyping them here I will just give you links (hope that is ok, I’m not selling anything, trying to be helpful and share wonderful books with people. LOL)
Cowboys & Indians – https://readingvoyages.blogspot.com/2015/08/reading-through-wild-west.html
Frontiersman & Explorers – https://readingvoyages.blogspot.com/2015/09/reading-through-frontiersmen-and.html
Civil War
https://readingvoyages.blogspot.com/2016/10/reading-through-civil-war.html
American Revolution (2 lists)-
https://readingvoyages.blogspot.com/2015/08/reading-through-american-revolution-war.html
https://readingvoyages.blogspot.com/2015/08/reading-through-american-revolution-2.html
July 12, 2017 at 10:45 am
Jamie
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Take a look at the Sonlight Grade 4 Readers list
https://www.sonlight.com/homeschool/subjects/readers/readers-4-5/
Also the Level 4 Readers are perfects for perfect for boys around that 4th – 5th grade age. This level is all based on American History.
https://www.sonlight.com/DCD5.html
Veritas Press + Memoria Press + Heart of Dakota usually have good selections on their grade level literature list too. I like to request their catalogs and browse their lists each year.
Hope that helps!!

July 12, 2017 at 1:22 pm
keechivalley
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I second the Sonlight lists! Great books!